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Roberts will be remembered not just as the first person to bring religious preaching and ceremony, and his healing ministry to television - he's now called the first "televangelist" - but for talking frankly about religion and sex on the airwaves.

Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened.

Specifically, Bunch draws together evidence indicating that Beck is nothing more than a morning zoo deejay whose latest money-making stunt is to portray a new kind of televangelist, offering political and religious salvation for profit.

Ahead of the May 10 national elections presidential candidates including Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III who looks set to win by a landslide wooed various religious leaders, such as televangelist Apollo C. Quiboloy of Kingdom of Jesus Christ, for their support, and consequently that of their congregations.